Looking for this car

[smshirk]

I've posted this all over, but don't believe I ever tried here. I am looking for this car. I was one of the previous ownser, and the one who put the most work into making this car what it was when I sold it in the spring of 2000. I sold it to a guy in PA, Carfax shhows it was last titled in MI. I am looking for the car to either buy it back, or if not, them just find out how everything is holding up. If you have seen it or know the present owner, please let me know. There aren't many who look or sound like it.

Thanks

[donstevens]

The car certainly is distinctive enough that some pelicanite will, or will have notice(d) it.

Good Luck,

Don

[stomachmonkey]

Pretty car. I would have kept it.

Sold my RX-7 to a local hispanic kid. When he was looking at it the drivers door handle broke so I told him I'd get a new one, my cost and put it in for him.

Part arrives a week later and I call him to come over.

He shows up and he's put a big giant kicker box in the back, big chrome trim all over it, stickers all over the windows, a bronze baby shoe on the dash, cheech n chong dingle balls and the topper, a horn that played La Cucaracha!

I nearly cried, still had his cash and came real close to buying the car back.

Scott

[real550A]

Never fall in love with anything you can buy or sell.

[JBO]

Very cool car. Was it based on an SC or Carrera? What year?

[Paul K]

Befriend a cop and have him run the VIN.

[kumma]

http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,1607,7-127-1627_9068_9069-107648--,00.html

[Hendog]

Sorry, can't help you with the car. But I have a question for you: What kind of wheels are those? I have what appears to be the same wheels. They came with the car and I don't know what make they are. Can you help?

Here's a pic of mine.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally posted by Hendog
Sorry, can't help you with the car. But I have a question for you: What kind of wheels are those? I have what appears to be the same wheels. They came with the car and I don't know what make they are. Can you help?

Hendog-

See this post for more info.

[bpatrick]

Not sure about Georgia, but in California you can request a title history report if you have the Vin #, and they will send you all of the owners.

[smshirk]

Thanks for the url kumma, I sure hope they will do it.

The car was an 82 911SC, The engine was built for max performance by air cooled classics in Knoxville, tn, plus a paxton cetrifugal SC, by superchargers of knoxville. It was one of the first kits they ever sold. It made just under 400RWHP on race gas.

There was an article in 911 World about a similar car and this one was built to match it's performance.

The body was all steel conversion and the slant nose fenders were bought from those guys in Oklahoma that sold a lot of Porsche parts, can't remember the name of the place. The wheels were three piece RH 3.6 turbo clones. They have had a lot of variations on the wheels, but this particular set was top of the line at the time. The only way you could tell they weren't the real thing is no speedline logo imprinted on the wheels.

It only had 63k miles wen I sold it in 2000. It sat in my garage most of the time, and when my son started college, I soold it to pay for his education. The guy who bought it was to offer me first dibs if he ever sold it, but I ended up moving to Atlanta and I suppose he couldn't find me. I have been looking for it ever since my son is got of school and on his own.

I didn't get but about half what I had in it and the guy I sold it to, had no idea what he was buying. He showed up on an airplane with a cashiers check made out in my name for my asking price. I showed him how to check the oil, but about a week after he got back to PA with it, he called and had added oil to it after checking the level cold in his garage. It was smoking and he was mad at me. I am really curious as to what has become of it.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally posted by smshirk
...The only way you could tell they weren't the real thing is no speedline logo imprinted on the wheels.

Sorry to knit-pick, but I'll have to disagree with that bit. Those wheels (as seen in either of the above pictures) are indeed meant to be reproductions of the Turbo 3.6 wheels. However, they are fairly easy to differentiate from the real ones. See my above link for more info.

[smshirk]

I didn't mean to imply they were equal to speedlines, only that a causal observer would think they were speedlines. Case in point, the wheels on my car were 17" done at my request

[jacko241]

This is a car I owned a few years back, was based on a '75 tub with an '86 3.2. Similar to the car you had, but louder. I know, the wing is gaudy, but it sure made it easy to lift the front to change tires.....

[toolman]

Somebody has one just like it in Autoweek for sale, I think for $105,000?

[mudman]

I just saw your (old) car in black at a coffee shop in MI. I think I've seen most of the notable Porsches in the area, and this was new to me. I'm on the road in that area all day long so I'll keep an eye out.
-Jeremy

[dafischer]

Originally posted by Eric Coffey
Sorry to knit-pick, but I'll have to disagree with that bit. Those wheels (as seen in either of the above pictures) are indeed meant to be reproductions of the Turbo 3.6 wheels. However, they are fairly easy to differentiate from the real ones. See my above link for more info.

For crying out loud, smshirk is trying to locate a 911 he once owned, and you're taking exception with his description of how the clone wheels can be distinguished from the real thing?

Somehow I miss the point of this...

[Eric Coffey]

Originally posted by dafischer
For crying out loud, smshirk is trying to locate a 911 he once owned, and you're taking exception with his description of how the clone wheels can be distinguished from the real thing?

Somehow I miss the point of this...

Well, superguy, if you would have read the whole thread, you would have seen that someone inquired about the wheels on the car. I then posted a link to a recent thread specifically discussing the Turbo 3.6L replica wheel variations. Then the original poster came back with incorrect info about the wheels in question. Not to mention, I apologized in advance with "sorry to knit-pick".
Somehow, I miss the point of you missing the point.


Oh, and no offense, Smshirk. Good luck locating the car.

[smshirk]

none taken, I wouldn't mind having another set of those clones now.RH gets a lot more now than they did in the mid nineties, even for the one piece wheels that look "sorta" like the 3 piece

[RickM]

Love those wheels! Doesn't Compomotive make a similar looking wheel?

SMShirk, Were the flatnose parts from Golden Coachworks in Golden, Ill?